After going through some Gourmet, Food & Wine, and Bon Appetit magazines, I started to notice in photos a lot of glassware from a Japanese company called Takashimaya. The Japanese department store has retailers in Singapore, Paris, Japan, New York, and Taipei, and most of the websites are in Japanese, but you can order online and in English from the New York site.
I thought this old fashioned bottle and glass set was beautiful. And though it will cost you $182 for the entire set shown above, it is certainly an elegant set of glassware.
There are other stylish items on the site too, but beware — they will cost you. This place setting has really nice flatware and glasses, but when the glass company, Lobmeyr, out of Austria makes a glass it will be expensive. Each wine glass costs $135. This company is known for crafting chandaliers and lighting for palaces and opera houses, and the company also made the chandalier for the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
